"I’m going to compare Dean Barrett with Stephen King...All creativity
comes from constraints. King works within the rural/horror genre, and is
the better for it. Barrett seems most comfortable within the
exotic/mystery, and likewise focuses that genre’s light to create his
rainbow of colors." - TDAXP.com

Sequel to SKYTRAIN TO MURDER

In Permanent Damage,
Scott Sterling is an American detective, ex-CIA Beijing and Bangkok,
still living over one of the bars in Bangkok frequented by American vets of
various wars.

An American woman shows up at the bar; a woman who believes her father,
a special forces team leader on highly classified missions into Laos,
was murdered by a Thai woman in the early 70’s, and she wishes to clear
his name and bring the Thai woman to justice. Scott reluctantly takes on
the case and agrees to search for the woman not knowing he is being set
up.

The special forces team members have their own reasons for stopping
Scott's investigation, and when Scott gets too close to the truth, he
suddenly finds himself in the middle of a decades-old vendetta, unable
to trust anyone, and in the sights of a highly trained hunter-killer.